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Subject: Re: Question to Bob: Crafty , Alpha and FindBit()

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 16:03:59 06/14/98

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On June 14, 1998 at 17:24:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 14, 1998 at 08:44:10, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>64-bit architecture:
>>
>>
>>    Move B, Reg2
>>    Move A, Reg1
>>    Reg2 = -Reg2
>>    Reg1 ||= Reg2
>
>
>you also probably meant reg2=compl(reg2).  "-" is not a 1's
>complement...  ie r=1, r=-r does not give what you'd expect,
>it gives a word with all bits set...
>
>However, every processor I know of has a 1's complement operator, so
>it doesn't cost any more...
>
>and is actually probably faster..

Yes, I meant "flip all the bits".  Whoops. :)

Dave



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